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New Arctic Council Reports Underline the Growing Concerns About the Health and Climate Impacts of Polar Air Pollution

While black carbon was flagged as a serious problem by the Arctic Council, an all-woman research team tracked it and its sources during a ski across Spitsbergen Island.

By Bob Berwyn

The Climate Sentinels team of female scientists ski Kfjellströmdalen, a 25-kilometer-long valley in Nordenskiöldland, Svalbard. The team traversed Svalbard's Spitsbergen Island to sample the snow and study the effects of black carbon on the Arctic island. Credit: Heïdi Sevestre
Sea ice is seen from NASA's Operation IceBridge research aircraft off the northwest coast on March 30, 2017 above Greenland. Credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images

How the Trump Administration’s Climate Denial Left Its Mark on The Arctic Council

By Sabrina Shankman

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